The org.eclipse.m2e:lifecycle-mapping plugin doesn’t exist actually. It should be used from the <build><pluginManagement> section of your pom.xml. That way, it’s not resolved by Maven but can be read by m2e. But a more practical solution to your problem would be to install the m2e build-helper connector in eclipse. You can install it from the Window … Read more
My team works around this problem by wrapping the relevant configuration in a profile: <profile> <id>only-eclipse</id> <activation> <property> <name>m2e.version</name> </property> </activation> <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId> <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <configuration> … </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build> </profile>
Eclipse versions earlier than Luna I’m not certain if this is the best thing to do but I followed the instructions mentioned here with regards to getting rid of the auto generated web resources folder and this seems to also resolve the issue with the missing MANIFEST.MF: on your project only : right-click on the … Read more
Indeed IDEs often cache the local repository (Eclipse does something similar, and I have to relaunch Eclipse). One ugly maven behavior you might encounter is that if you declare a dependency before you actually install it, maven will create an empty version of the missing dependency (folder with metadata but no jar), and you will … Read more
I ran into a similar issue today and found that this question also has recently been asked and answered at the atlassian forum as well. My solution was to install slf4j based on guidelines from this blog post about “SLF4J Logging in Eclipse Plugins”. To extract, here is what I did: Eclipse -> Help -> … Read more
I encountered the same issue after updating the maven-jar-plugin to its latest version (at the time of writing), 3.0.2. Eclipse 4.5.2 started flagging the pom.xml file with the org.apache.maven.archiver.MavenArchiver.getManifest error and a Maven > Update Project.. would not fix it. Easy solution: downgrade to 2.6 version Indeed a possible solution is to get back to … Read more